As I finished grading our undergrad math stats exam (in Paris Dauphine) over the weekend, which was very straightforward this year, the more because most questions had already been asked on weekly quizzes or during practicals, some answers stroke me as atypical (but ChatGPT is not to blame!). For instance, ...

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tidymodels and shapviz to explain XGBoost models

What do we mean by “responsiveness”? Confusingly (and rather unhelpfully) when it comes to web applications there are two different topics that may be referred to by the terms “r...

After much deliberation, I have updated my personal R code style guide to no longer mandate functions begin with uppercase letters. While I still feel there is value in being able immediately differentiate functions from variables, too much of base R does not follow that convention and one loses more ...

Introduction Transforming data refers to the process of changing the scale or distribution of a variable in order to make it more suitable for analysis. There are many different methods for transforming data, and each has its own specific use ca...

In my current mammoth work project, I’m generating many plots. The titles are very descriptive (they tell you what the plot is about), but they are not really telling a story. That’s simply because there are so many on the production line. ...

Using the headliner package for data driven ggplot titles

Shikokuchuo Persistent http(s) sessions is a new feature added in nanonext 0.7.3. This allows for efficient polling by keeping an open connection with the server, transacting as and when needed. Provides an ideal, low-latency solution to request...

Dr. Heather Turner of the Warwick R User Group (also on Twitter) recently talked to the R Consortium about the group’s struggle to stay active amid the pandemic. With the... The post Comeback! Reviving the Warwick R User Group with In-Person and Online Events appeared first on R Consortium.

In my species distribution modelling courses, for a quick and safe removal of the most common biodiversity database errors, I’ve so far used functions from the scrubr R package, namely ‘coord_incomplete’, ‘coord_impossible’, ‘coord_unlikely’, ‘coord_imprecise’ and ‘coord_uncertain’. There are other R … Continue reading →

For the final chapter of my dissertation, I had examined the effects of ordinal class rank on the academic achievement of Danish primary school students (following a popular identification strategy introduced in a paper by Murphy and Weinhard). Because of the richness of the Danish register data, I had a ...

At Jumping Rivers we’re all about getting involved in the R community! As such, we host multiple events throughout the year. Read on for information about what we have planned so far for 202...